6 entries categorized "Towns | Rhinebeck"

November 2, 2012

“It was an honor and a privilege for me to be Drayton’s friend and partner. Her tremendous capacity to love her fellow man and her community and to work hard for both, along with her rock-solid integrity and character, her easy sense of humor and boundless joie de vivre, her intelligence and indomitable spirit were known by all. These are just a few of the qualities which I loved in her and which, over the course of our almost 20 years as partners and friends, changed me in so many ways for the better. Her positive imprint on those she knew and loved and on her community will be a lasting testament to her spirit and her life.”

Her obituary (with information about calling hours and funeral time) can be found here.

The event, which featured an installation of Puryear’s work Vessel, also included a performance on a 300-year-old standup bass, a catalog essay by Carter Ratcliffe, and a separate gallery of paintings by Wides’ husband Jim Holl:

October 24, 2011

Does healthy, organic food cost more than “regular” food? And what’s a hamburger supposed to cost around here, anyway?

Ever since Grazin’ revitalized a formerly-empty restaurant space on Warren Street, one has heard more than a few hyperbolic discussions about prices, with little actual relationship to the reality of the 21st Century cost of delivering a decent meal.

The chart below collects some representative menu prices for burgers in the region. For the purposes of a fair comparison, the price of a side of fries was included if those don’t come automatically with the burger:

As the hard numbers above show, the price of a burger in these parts can range from a low of $5.50 to a high of $13. The average burger price of the 15 establishments list above is $9.98—precisely 3 cents higher than than that of the Grazin’ all-organic, Animal Welfare Certifed burger.

In short, getting a healthy, organic, responsibly-created, locally-sourced, farm-to-table burger is no more expensive than eating at most any other non-fastfood restaurant in the area... which just points up the irrationality of some of the anti-organic voices in our midst. Those who denounce $9-$10 for a burger as outrageous clearly haven’t been getting out much lately.

Now some Rush Limbaugh listeners may cry foul, noting that they could get a slider and fries at McDonald’s or Burger King for even less than any of the prices above. Yes, you could... except those aren’t hamburgers. Those are reprocessed sewage patties masquerading as food. If you eat them regularly, you will almost certainly die early. And the price of that to your family and society far exceeds anything that buying organic ever could.

July 5, 2010

CLAVERACK
» Speaking of music, local resident Melora Creager of Rasputina was profiled in
The Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago.

HUDSON » And speaking of reviews, a big New York City publication is said to
be readying a piece on the Hudson music “scene,” with Dan Bunny among the reluctantly-featured scenemakers.

NEW
LEBANON »June 25th » A minor accident caused some local
law enforcement to discover some
unusual cookies in a Nassau man’s car.

MARYLAND & HUDSON » June 28th » Cumberland, Maryland forestry expert Bernie Zlomek compares the views from Green Ridge along the Potomac to those overlooking the river in his hometown of Hudson.

TEXAS & HUDSON » July 3rd » An obituary for NASA engineer and Hudson native William Dayton Dodge, Jr., appeared in a San Antonio newspaper.

HILLSDALE & HUDSONJuly 4th »A horticultural piece
in The Wall Street Journal by
Hillsdale resident Bart Ziegler features bearded irises in the
garden of his neighbor Peter Cipkowski, plantings which have been handed
down to him all the way from his grandmother’s Hudson garden.

ATHENS
& HUDSON »July 10th » Public tours
of the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse will also take place Saturday, as well
as on August 14th, September 11th, and October 9th. Details are pending
at the Society’s website. The annual Athens street fest is also next Saturday, with fireworks at 10 pm (easily visible from Promenade Park in Hudson); the raindate is Sunday.

COLUMBIA COUNTY »July 1st » Ken Flood, the Planning Director for the County, tells Mid-Hudson News that “a large portion
of the jobs in his county are in the tourism industry,” pegging the number at 6.5%, which actually sounds like an underestimate. But Flood says this “percentage is much higher than any of the other counties in the
Hudson Valley.” Wonder how those numbers are put together.